“We need thousands of more couples serving in the missions of the Church. Every mission president pleads for them. They…can leave the grandchildren. Those little darlings will be just fine, and I promise you will do things for them in the service of the Lord that, worlds without end, you could never do if you stayed home to hover over them. What greater gift could grandparents give their posterity than to say by deed as well as word, “In this family we serve missions!”

-Jeffrey R. Holland


Sunday, December 29, 2013

  WITH THE ANDERSONS, HUMANITATIAN MISSIONARIES IN MACEDONIA FROM OGDEN..

 

EVIDENCE OF TRAVELING...

MOST RECENT......

TYPICAL KOSOVO

NEW STATUE ON THE BOULEVARD

(Past president  of Kosove, Ibrahim Rugova)
BESIM, IBA & ARDI
 
  
 

PHOTO SHOOT

 WITH SOME OF 'OUR GIRLS'

DAFINA, DONJETA, VALMIRA, KARYN, DONIKA, ARBERESHA

DONIKA & AIDA

CHRISTMAS EVE

 WE HAD A GREAT NATIVITY PLAY..EVERYONE LOVED IT FIRST TIME EVER....

ANGELS SINGING TO THE SHEPHERDS

KRISTO & SONILA

(THEY ARE EXPECTING IN MARCH)

 

WE HAD SOME OF OUR MILITARY SING CHRISTMA SONGS IN ENGLISH..

IT WAS VERY EMOTIONAL FOR ALL... 

ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL, DONIKA !

CHRISTMAS MORNING

ELDERS TANNER, FINKLEA,REBER & RACINE

WATCHING "EPHRAIM'S RESCUE"

WITH THE MISSION PRESIDENT'S PERMISSION..THANKS GIRLS FOR SENDING IT! !

CHRISTMAS IN OUR APARTMENT



ON THE BOULEVARD

(NEW YEARS TREE)


 EVERYTHING IS CONSIDERED NEW YEARS!!
 THAT IS THEIR BIG CELEBRATION !!

BAPTISM IN GJAKOVE

 MERGIM


 

ZOJA

WITH CHILDREN, DAFINA,  A MEMBER. AND YOUNGER BROTHER

 PAJTIM


 BELLA & BOYFRIEND

 

EREZA








VISIT FROM ELDER CHARLES AREA AUTHORITY FROM ENGLAND








 

FHE THANKSGIVING TURKEYS AND MIRENJOHES

THE POWERE WENT OUT...

MISSION CONFERENCE AND THANKSGIVING TIRANA, ALBANIA

(FRONT ROW..DEPARTING MISSIONARIES)
  

ARDI'S BIRTHDAY 

  1.  DAFINA

 MILAIN'S BAPTISM

FIRST TIME HIS WIFE HAS COME TO THE CHURCH.

 ALWAYS SMILING....

 THE GROUP

BAPTISM OF MURAT

 HE IS A STREET FIGHTER ! !  

 HE FOUND THE CHURCH ON THE INTERNET AND WHEN VISITING PRISTINA WITH A FRIEND  AT THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, HIS FRIEND WARNED THE NEXT STREET OVER IS THE MORMON CHURCH SO DON'T GO THERE..AND HE LIGHT UP..THAT IS WHAT HE'D BEEN LOOKING FOR..


 

ELDER FINKLEY WITH BESIM

HE HAD JUST PASSED THE INTERVIEW FOR THE MELCHIZEDEK PRIESTHOOD HAS OIL AND ORDINANCE CARD  HE WAS SO EXCITED!! 

 SIDI VOJKA

FROM ALBANIA

HEADED ON A MISSION TO ITALY. HE JUST RECEIVED HIS VISA TO AMERICA TO THE MTC CAME TO VISIT IN KOSOVE !

OUR FAVORITE STORE IN GJAKOVE

OUR GJAKOVE ELDERS

 ELDER HARVEY(FROM BOSTON), RAWLINGS, (FROM SALT LAKE), (FREDERICK MARYLAND).

 ELEA

HER MOTHER MADE THE CAPE & HAT

 ARBERESHA, HER MOTHER

 FHE

MAKING CHRISTMAS CARDS

 WITH VISITING SISTER MISSIONARIES FROM MACEDONIA

 STRINGING POPCORN FOR THE CHRISTMAS TREE






 DECORATIONS ON THE BOULEVARD...

 

FHE

 MAKING BLANKETS






 FINISHED BLANKETS

 

DELIVERING